LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1620, 28 January 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The School Committee will meet on Monday at 7 30 p.m. \ ; Notice is given Qf the sitting of the Assessment Court on Thursday 4th March. /• There appears to have been a considerable rain-fall all over the Colony ,doing an incalculable amount of good to the country. From February Ist next the Welling-ton-Sandon aud Wellington- Bulls mails will be despatched by way of the Sanson Carnarvon tramway instead of the Greatford route. Isy this alteration the mail will 'reach Sanson* about 14 hours earlier and Bulls owe and a quarter hours. From the same date i also the mails 'for Sandon, - l Carnavon, Scott's Ferry,,' aud Parewanui \vi|l cloba at the Bulls P.Ovat II a.m., instead of 7.30 a. in .. as heretofore. \ j ■ '■■ '• '( . •'■' : ' :' „,'>■ The' Queensland Gazette contains additional by-laws ''-for maintaining the good rule and Government of the municipality of , 'BriabanH." Among other . regulations -is /the. following :-j-:'' No pfer- ; son shall play or cause to be played any ' musical instrument m or through any public street or' place within the said municipality without the permission of the! Mayor m writing." "~ The Steamer Hauroto, which left Wellington for Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, had on board 44 horses, 24 head of cattle, and!' 3oo tons produce' shipped from the South. She also ', took m a small quantity of prod upe, consisting of moat, butter, cheese, and timber, at Wellington, •The latest advices from tke , wool sales is as follows : — At Monday's .wool sales 11,000 hales were catalogued, the tone of the market baing weak. All descriptions of inferior and faulty wools, were specially noticeable for their want of Animation. •v Colonel,. Fraser, M.H.R., informs a Wellington paper that a building at the Thames has been rented, and that the School v o,f Mines has., been already opened, 'under- the superintendence !i of Mr Montgomery; Professor . Black's assistant. There was no difficulty m getjting,the £ss) jpcally,, but ..as the Mining Department haa no money at its disposal, there is' some difficulty about getting the £ for £ which which 1 was: promised by Prof essor Blaok. An Auckland settler offers a- prize of £20 for the best essay, on the following subjects :-—The relative expenditure ( as, between Auckland province and tlie rest of New Zealand during ttie pnst' 45 years. Also as to the fairness of the proposed distribution' of Sir J. Vogel's big loan, and the set-off offered by him to Auckland to s balance Southern advances. The essay should not exceed 64 pages demy octavo, and should be sent to the Herald office for the gentleman offering the prize on or before the Ist: March next. It must be accompanied by an enclosed sealed envelope, containing the name and address of the writer, and a motto attached to the essay, and also the same' motto /on' the s sealed enveloped The right-is -re'seirved' of withdrawing the prize if none of the essays are found to possess absolute merit. AH essays shall become the property of the gentleman giving tb'ej prize who reserves the right of publishing them, and no essay can, ,be retur^d, ■ .-•] (i n 1.T.'l '/. !i •' Apropos of the Drivor appointment at Duhedin, the^ Tima^ k -H«;a&* .remarks thai; if the commission 'is' at alf'on a substantial scale Mr Driver may be soon rev'eilirtg'iri is princely a salary'a& Wat € spoiled favourite of fortune, Mr ' GeorgeThftrue, jun , who drew as much as the Premier and another Cabinet Minister combined; aud '-.was bidding fair, m course of time to bask m a salary as large as that of the Governor himself.